Families, take note: if anything goes
wrong at your home birth, you will be blamed.
The odds of something going fatally
wrong at my home birth are 2 %.
Not exact matches
Absolutely nothing
wrong with giving
birth at home.
Education during pregnancy rarely has anything serious to do with breastfeeding, and since breastfeeding is perceived by most pre-parenthood women to be a natural, instinctive thing instead of a learned behavior (on both mom & baby's part) if it doesn't go absolutely perfectly from the first moments they may feel something is
wrong with THEM and clam up about it while quietly giving the baby the hospital - offered bottle along with the bag of formula samples they give out «just in case» even if you explicitly tell them you're breastfeeding (which was my experience with my firstborn in 2004 and one of the many highly informed reasons I chose to
birth my next two
at home).
Just because a
birth starts
at home doesn't mean it has to finish there; if something goes
wrong, or if the mom changes her mind, they transfer.
I'm still annoyed
at the argument that it's
wrong to scare the poor first time moms with the fact that they are
at increased risk in
home birth.
So they choose
home birth, and THINK they have more control
at home, when they have the same amount of control or even less (less options for pain control, for interventions if things go
wrong, etc.).
Of my own experience giving
birth at home, I can say that I did not realize how much control I was giving up in terms of «physical / medical control», but had anything gone
wrong, that would have become horribly obvious in an instant (I am so thankful it didn't).
But you are
wrong about my views and my opinions and it is very clear that you are quite anti
home birth and fairly jaded
at that.
Don't get us
wrong — you know we fully support alternative methods — but what we don't support is judgment in either direction: toward
at -
home, in - hospital, natural, or epidural
births.
Like Father, Like Son (Unrated) Switched
at birth drama about the life - altering decision faced by a couple (Masaharu Fukuyama and Keita Ninomiya) after being informed that they had taken the
wrong baby
home from the hospital a half - dozen years earlier.